the pawnbroker

it was predictable that with the teevee industry making almost nothing new except "reality" shows, there would eventually be one f...

as awe-inspiring as it was, and as hard as it is to believe that it's been forty years, it could well be that the accomplishments of arm...

"fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice , shame on me..." i'd say nobody could be that dumb, but we know better don't w...

an article on the probable next phase of the housing meltdown resulted in a pretty long string of comments; lots of crass and ignorant prick...

it's easy enough to see who pulls the strings in moscow ; the pretty puppet goes through the moves while the plotting puppeteer makes th...

*********************** YOU'RE STILL THE ONE! *********************** jtc

wifey and i drove up to north ga. monday to close the sale of my son's former house up here. the transaction went smoothly at the attor...

annoying but effective teevee pitchman billy mays was found dead this morning... he lives near here in the tampa area and was on a plane tha...

last year, on the fifteenth anniversary of my dad's passing at age sixty five, i wrote a bit about him, and it seems appropriate for tod...

i'd always liked the '54 chevy trucks...the sculpted and relatively homely design was the last before the straight streamline shapes...

wow. thirty years as an ffl and i had exactly three on-site inspections from atf. and while i had a couple of interactions with the fdle (fl...

apparently, the invasion from outer space has begun... our little german friend may be exagerrating a bit, though...that pebble-sized meteor...

on that at least, huffin' po's michael rowe got it right. so somehow, the octogenarian loonybird (whose weapon of choice to take up ...

my girl turns 55 today, two-and-a-half months ahead of me. and she still gets carded when buying wine at the grocery store...no kidding. w...

today is the 65th anniversary of the all-out allied invasion that turned the tide of ww11 and quite possibly won the war. so when the googl...

are you just dying to drive the new chinese vehicles that are in our near future? good, 'cause you probably will . jtc

i'm not jon stewart's biggest fan to say the least. but last night's edition had an hilarious and spot-on mocking rant on the b...

gotta print up some more posters for the gun shop walls...we'll put hers, "salesman of the month" right under barry's, ...

and on a day that has become known more for heralding the beginning of summer than for honoring our ultimate heroes, i thank you. because of...

in recognition of and repayment for the fawning adoration bestowed upon obama by the late and shameless "journalist" tim russert, ...